Interdisciplinary Research on Close Relationships: The Case for Integration

✍ Scribed by Lorne J Campbell PhD (editor), Timothy J. Loving PhD (editor)

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book argues that close personal relationships are most fruitfully explored through interdisciplinary collaboration. Such cooperation permits researchers to integrate a variety of perspectives on how close relationships develop, function, and interact in various contexts. The contributors examine aspects of both early and adult relationships, and of parent–child relationships. Their chapters demonstrate how theorists and researchers versed in developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolutionary science, individual differences, and psychophysiology, can collaborate and generate new thinking on familiar topics.

This excellent resource will be well received by researchers and students in the social sciences who are interested in a broader, more collaborative approach to relationship science.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1
Research on Close Relationships: Call for an Interdisciplinary Integration
Part I
Interpersonal Responsiveness in Close Relationships
Chapter 2 Perceived Partner Responsiveness as an Organizing Theme for the Study of Relationships and Well-Being
Chapter 3 The Emergence of Social Approach and Avoidance Motivation in Early Parent–Child Relationships
Chapter 4 Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships: Implications for Social Threat and Its Effects on Immunological Functioning
Part II
Relationships in Early Life
Chapter 5 Parent–Child and Child–Peer Close Relationships: Understanding Parental Influences on Peer Relations from a Cultural Context
Chapter 6
Social Networks and Attachment Bonds During Adolescence: Implications for Early Pair Bonding and Risky Behaviors
Part III
Adult Relationships
Chapter 7 An Organizational–Developmental Perspective on Functioning in Adult Romantic Relationships
Chapter 8 Putting Marriage in Its Context: The Influence of External Stress on Early Marital Development
Chapter 9 The Utility of Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Relationships: Women’s Estrus as Illustration
Chapter 10 Examining Divorce Consequences and Policies and the Question: Is Marriage More Than a Piece of Paper?
Part IV
Conclusions
Chapter 11
A Path to Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Chapter 12
Back to the Future: Resurrecting and Vitalizing the Unrealized Call for Interdisciplinary Research on Close Relationships
Index
About the Editors